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"Why so, my child?"

"Because I don't knohere he is, and I shouldn't knohere to find

him In his last letter he said it was better I should not know"

"Then he has cut himself off from you entirely?"

"Entirely I am to see him next in Ro traced by his

enemies, he has stopped all channels of communication with his friends?"

"Yes"

The Pope's face whitened visibly, and an inward voice said to hi for the

blindly on to it"

The weary eyes looked with co face "There's

no help for it," thought the Pope

"Suppose, my childsuppose it ithin your power to hinder evil

consequences, would you do it?"

"I a?"

"In the history of nations it has sometimes happened that a woman has

been able to save life and protect society by raising a little hand like

this"